Material Kit Ghost ‌

How to use and install this theme?

Install Ghost

Material Kit Ghost is a theme created for Ghost - an open source headless Node.js CMS and thus you need it before using this theme.

You can find more information about installing Ghost here.

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Install Material Kit Ghost

Once you finished setting up your website it's time for the big step. Head over to your admin panel by typing https://your-website.com/ghost.

You should now be able to see your admin panel. Choose 'Design' scroll down and click on 'Upload a theme'. Now all you have to do is to drag and drop the .zip file you've downloaded from Creative Tim.

Using our theme as a kickstarter for your own theme?

Some developers may choose to use our theme as a starting project for their own projects. Doing this isn't hard but requires the understanding of Handlebars - a simple templating language Ghost uses, and a basic of understanding HTML, CSS and JS.

We also recommend checking out Ghost's documentation.

The main files are:

  • default.hbs - The parent template file, which includes your global header/footer
  • index.hbs - The main template to generate a list of posts, usually the home page
  • post.hbs - The template used to render individual posts
  • page.hbs - Used for individual pages
  • tag.hbs - Used for tag archives, eg. "all posts tagged with news"
  • author.hbs - Used for author archives, eg. "all posts written by Jamie"

One neat trick is that you can also create custom one-off templates by adding the slug of a page to a template file. For example:

  • page-about.hbs - Custom template for an /about/ page
  • tag-news.hbs - Custom template for /tag/news/ archive
  • author-ali.hbs - Custom template for /author/ali/ archive

Development

Material Kit Ghost styles are compiled using Gulp/PostCSS to polyfill future CSS spec. You'll need Node, Yarn (or NPM) and Gulp installed globally. After that, from the theme's root directory:‌

# install dependencies
yarn install

# run development server
yarn dev
== or ==
gulp

Now you can edit /assets/css/ files, which will be compiled to /assets/built/ automatically.

The zip Gulp task packages the theme files into dist/<theme-name>.zip, which you can then upload to your site.‌

# create .zip file
yarn zip

PostCSS Features Used

  • Autoprefixer - Don't worry about writing browser prefixes of any kind, it's all done automatically with support for the latest 2 major versions of every browser.
  • Variables - Simple pure CSS variables
  • Color Function

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